[pdftex] slightly OT: ps2pdf vs. distiller

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:59 PM 10/7/2002 +0200, Peter Sojan wrote:

>For the curious, here the original documents:
>
>Original PS:
>    http://www20.brinkster.com/lorandis/test.ps
>
>PDF with Ghostscript ("ps2pdf"):
>    http://www20.brinkster.com/lorandis/test_gs.pdf
>
>PDF with Distiller:
>    http://www20.brinkster.com/lorandis/test_distiller.pdf

maybe the differences in the font spec/descriptor (Ascent and CapHeight and 
alike) determine how the font renderer optimizes the viewing (direction of 
rounding, snapping, etc) or maybe some hinting mess-up

Hans

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